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Dr Khan refuses to comment on nuke proliferation expose by Times | Father of Pakistan's nuclear programme, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has refused to comment about the genuineness of a controversial letter published by a British newspaper, that has exposed the Pakistan Government's role in nuclear
proliferation activities that included exchanging and passing blue-prints and
equipment to China, Iran, North Korea, and Libya. Dr Khan has been reluctant to
confirm or deny the issues which have been raised in the letter, saying that:
"I cannot comment on the report of Sunday Times because I have so far not gone
through it," "As the matter of my alleged involvement in nuclear proliferation
is sub judice, I cannot comment on the new media report. I have become tired of
clarifying my position, but I know that this is an unending controversy," The
Dawn quoted Dr Kahn, as saying. The expose came from a letter, which Khan had
written to his wife Hendrina Khan in December 2003, in which he mentioned that
all the activities were done on the orders of the Pakistani government and military,
and he was forced to take all the criticism that had followed. "The b******* first
used us and are now playing dirty games with us. If the government plays any mischief
with me take a tough stand. They might try to get rid of me to cover up all the
things they got done by me," a news channel had quoted Khan's letter, as saying.
"Probably with the blessings of BB [Benazir Bhutto, who became prime minister
in 1988] and [a now-retired general]... General Imtiaz [Benazir's defence adviser,
now dead] asked... me to give a set of drawings and some components to the Iranians...The
names and addresses of suppliers were also given to the Iranians," The Times quoted
from Khan's letter. Earlier in January 2004, Khan had forcefully confessed to
having been involved in a clandestine international network of nuclear weapons
technology proliferation from Pakistan to Libya, Iran and North Korea. And in
an August 23, 2005, General Pervez Musharraf had confirmed that Khan had supplied
gas centrifuges and gas centrifuge parts to North Korea and, possibly, an amount
of uranium hexafluoride. |
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